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Two days later, Puma?s robotic sibling, Jaguar, surfaced somewhere under a seemingly endless blanket of white. Oden?s helicopter flew low, dangling a receiver just above the ice to listen for a sound signal from Jaguar. After more than an hour, a signal finally came. Pilot Sven Stenvall dropped a red-painted piece of wood on the ice to mark Jaguar?s location underneath. Oden broke ice and up popped Jaguar. Mattias Peterson, Oden?s captain, expertly and gingerly maneuvered the icebreaker toward it, trying to avoid accidentally running over it, pushing damaging ice floes into it, or stirring up the ice too much and losing the vehicle again.
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Posted: April 16, 2008
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